Steve Yang is in his second season with the Cowgirls and was recently promoted to Associate Head Coach after spending the 2021-22 season as assistant coach.
Yang's duties include serving as the Cowgirls' recruiting coordinator, scheduling coordinator as well as overseeing the Director of Basketball Operations position.
Prior to McNeese, Yang spent four years at Georgetown where he served as an interim assistant coach/Director of Basketball Operations.
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While at Georgetown he was part of a team that ranked No. 21 in the Big East 2018 recruiting class per ASGR and Top 40 in the country. He was also part of a team that advanced to the quarterfinals of the WNIT and he coach the Big East Defensive Player of the Year, several All-Big East selections, and two All-Big East Conference Tournament performers as well as a student-athlete that was named to the Big East All-Freshman Team and NCAA Women of the Year nominee.
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Prior to joining the Georgetown staff, Yang was the Director of Basketball Operations at George Mason University from 2015-17 where he coached two Atlantic 10 All-Conference players, an Allstate WBCA Good Works Team student-athlete, an Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team, and several players who were named to the Dean's List.
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In the summer of 2018, Yang was part of the inaugural Teamworks Basketball Leadership Committee. Yang and the committee helped shape the future of student-athlete engagement and developed best practices throughout the athletics industry focusing specifically on basketball.
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The 2006 graduate of Missouri State has had stops at his alma mater as well as at Winthrop University, the University of Illinois-Springfield and George Mason.
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While at Springfield, Yang took over as the interim head coach after spending time as an assistant coach and community event coordinator. Before Springfield, Yang spent the 2013-14 season as the director of operations at Winthrop University.
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His stint at Winthrop followed a season as the Director of Operations at Missouri State. Before this, Yang spent four years at Evangel University as an assistant coach and video coordinator as well as serving as an assistant on both the men's and women's basketball coaching staffs at McCook (Neb.) Community College for one year. He was also the boy's varsity coach at Miami School in Amoret, Missouri.
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The native of Tulsa, Ok., Yang earned his Bachelor of Science in recreation and leisure studies degree from Missouri State in 2006 and his Master of Science in administrative studies and sports management from Missouri State in 2010.
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Yang and his wife, Lisa, have two sons, Lincoln and Landon, and a daughter, Scarlett.
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